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Climate Change Interest Group

Monthly Meetings

Share with other CCIG members actions to reduce our carbon footprints and to mitigate the effects global warming. Learn from subject expert about resources to green our lives, homes, and neighborhoods; and about the technical, political, and economic issues involved in climate change.

Next Meeting

Tuesday, September 10, 11 AM to 12:00 PM
GNPS Members Register Here

Agenda

1. CCIG News

2. Main Topic: What is Community Solar? Special Guest: Diana Cordova from Power Market Community Solar

3. Updating the CCIG Info page: What do we want?

4. Do we want to share our experiences though the GNPS Member Resource Exchange?

Meeting July 9, 2024

Main topics
• Change in CCIG Coordinator. Next steps.
• Presentation by CCIG members who participated in a direct action opportunity. A report on the mock funeral organized by Third Act is linked the adjacent panel,
• August meeting cancelled. Next meeting September 10.

Shared Links from Meeting July 9, 2024

A Very Moving Funeral.
Post by Bill McKibben on SubStack, July 9, 2024.

Mock funeral organized by Third Act outside City Bank Headquarters in the Financial District. Part of the Summer of Heat on Wall Street. City Bank is second-biggest all-time lender to the fossil fuel industry.

Reducing our Carbon Footprints, Healing the Earth

Solar Farms Have a Superpower Beyond Clean Energy
New York Times, Sept 5, 2024

"It’s not your average solar farm.

The glassy panels stand in a meadow. Wildflowers sway in the breeze, bursts of purple, pink, yellow, orange and white among native grasses. A monarch butterfly flits from one blossom to the next. Dragonflies zip, bees hum and goldfinches trill.

As solar projects unfurl across the United States, sites like this one in Ramsey, Minn., stand out because they offer a way to fight climate change while also tackling another ecological crisis: a global biodiversity collapse, driven in large part by habitat loss."

Action Opportunities: Get Out the Climate Vote

"When environmentalists don't vote, politicians don't listen." (The Environmental Voter Project))

The Environmental Voter Project is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that identifies inactive environmentalists to turn them into consistent voters. EVP currently offers opportunities to call or canvass voters.

OR

Write letters to voters through the nonpartisan organization Vote Forward that's partnering with Climate Changemakers. Sign up for an account with Vote Forward now, because it can take 1-3 days to get approved to write letters with them. Then you'll print the letters yourself and hand-write your personal message, and save the letters until the send date in October.

News You Can Use

Climate Week

Expect traffic jams in Manhattan. This year, Climate Week NYC is being held from September 22-29, 2024. The event takes place every year in partnership with the United Nations General Assembly and is run in coordination with the United Nations and the City of New York. Sponsors and partners are primarily businesses such as McKinsey Sustainability and Deloitte. Some events are free and open to the public.

2nd Annual Climate Justice Forum
Heads up for other climate related activities running in parallel to the official UN programs and Climate Week conferences, One example: the 2nd Annual Climate Justice Forum.. The event is by the media organization City & State New York. Partners include RISE Light and Power, We Act for Environmental Justice, and the NAACP. The free event is on Tuesday, September 24 from 1 PM to 7 PM at MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, Queens.

New York State is Considering Building Nuclear Energy Plants
On Sept 5, Governor Hochul and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) discussed the possibility of using "emissions free" nuclear power to meet the State's energy needs. According to City & State's reporting, some are skeptical. If the proposal advances, expect opportunities to advocate against it.

About Us

Climate Change Interest Group members are concerned about the effects of climate change on all that we need and value. Our aim is to understand and engage in impactful activities to preserve a sustainable environment. We participate in individual, neighborhood and regional initiatives, and identify opportunities for legislative and direct action.